Chien-ju Chang

List of John Benjamins publications for which Chien-ju Chang plays a role.

Journal

Narrative Inquiry (NI)

Edited by Dorien Van De Mieroop and Allyssa McCabe

ISSN 1387-6740 | E-ISSN 1569-9935

Title

Chinese Language Narration: Culture, cognition, and emotion

Edited by Allyssa McCabe and Chien-ju Chang

[Studies in Narrative, 19] 2013. viii, 213 pp.

Articles

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Chang, Chien-ju and Allyssa McCabe 2013 Evaluation in Mandarin Chinese children’s personal narratives Chinese Language Narration: Culture, cognition, and emotion, McCabe, Allyssa and Chien-ju Chang (eds.), pp. 33–56 | Article

Evaluation is a critical component of personal narrative, the component that conveys to listeners how narrators feel about experiences that happened to them. Evaluation conveys the impact of what actually did happen in the context of what narrators expected would happen but did not or what they… read more

McCabe, Allyssa and Chien-ju Chang 2013 Introduction Chinese Language Narration: Culture, cognition, and emotion, McCabe, Allyssa and Chien-ju Chang (eds.), pp. 1–6 | Article

Sung, Ming-hui and Chien-ju Chang 2013 Chinese and English referential skill in Taiwanese children’s spoken narratives Chinese Language Narration: Culture, cognition, and emotion, McCabe, Allyssa and Chien-ju Chang (eds.), pp. 57–84 | Article

This study aims to examine Chinese and English referential strategies in English as a Foreign Language (EFL) learners in Taiwan. Thirty sixth-grade children with three or four years of English instruction participated in this study. They were asked to narrate a wordless picture book in Chinese and… read more

Tsai, Wanyu and Chien-ju Chang 2008 “But I first… and then he kept picking”: Narrative skill in Mandarin-speaking children with language impairment Narrative Inquiry 18:2, pp. 349–377 | Article

This study investigates the narrative skill of school-aged children with language impairment in Taiwan. Twelve children, 6 children with language impairment (LI) and 6 children with typical language development (TLD), aged from 8;0 to 9;5 participated in this study. They were asked to tell three… read more

Chang, Chien-ju 2006 Linking early narrative skill to later language and reading ability in Mandarin-speaking children: A longitudinal study over eight years Narrative Inquiry 16:2, pp. 275–293 | Article

The aim of this study is to examine the relationship between Mandarin Chinese-speaking children’s narrative skill in telling personally experienced stories in preschool and their later language and reading ability. Fourteen Mandarin-speaking children, 8 boys and 6 girls, were visited at home when… read more

Chang, Chien-ju 2003 Talking about the past: How do Chinese mothers elicit narratives from their young children across time Narrative Inquiry 13:1, pp. 99–126 | Article

Chang, Chien-ju 1998 The Development of Autonomy in Preschool Mandarin Chinese-Speaking Children's Play Narratives Narrative Inquiry 8:1, pp. 77–111 | Article

This paper aims to examine to what extent preschool Mandarin Chinese-speaking children can create an autonomous replica play narrative. Twenty-four Taiwanese children, 12 four-year-olds and 12 six-year-olds, participated in this study. The focus of investigation is on the linguistic resources (i.e. read more